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Peanut Butter Pumpkins

Enjoy Halloween-style dessert anytime with these pumpkin shaped candies made using peanut butter chips, pretzel twists and vanilla frosting.

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Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 2 hr 30 min
Servings 36

Ingredients

1: bag (10 oz) peanut butter chips (1 2/3 cups)

1: can (16 oz) vanilla ready-to-spread frosting

1/4: teaspoon orange paste icing color (not liquid food color)

12: small pretzel twists or thin pretzel sticks, broken into 1/2-inch pieces

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Directions

1 Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. In 2-quart saucepan, melt peanut butter chips over low heat, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove from heat. Stir in frosting and icing color until well blended. Refrigerate until cool enough to handle, about 1 hour.
2 Shape mixture into 1 1/4-inch balls; flatten slightly. Use edge of rubber spatula to make grooves in each ball to resemble pumpkin. Press 1 pretzel piece into top of each for stem; place on cookie sheet. Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving. Store in covered container in refrigerator.

EXPERT TIPS

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Make the mixture an hour before kids arrive. Once the pumpkins are shaped, refrigerate them. They'll be ready for sampling in one hour. To make the graveyard scene shown on the cover, sprinkle a piece of styrofoam with crushed chocolate cookies crumbs. Place coconut and green food color in a resealable plastic bag; seal and shake to make "grass." Turn to p.4 to make Hot Dog Mummies.

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Candy

Calories: 100
Calories from Fat: 40),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 4g; 4%
(Saturated Fat 3 1/2g, 3 1/2% Trans Fat 0g 0% ),
Cholesterol: 0mg; 0%;
Sodium: 15mg; 15%;
Total Carbohydrate: 15g; 15%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 14g 14% ),
Protein: 0g; 0%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 0%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 0%;
Iron: 0%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;

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*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 2/3/2011 12:06:10 PM REPORT ABUSE LauraW32 said:

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Takes a little bit of time, but not too bad - and everyone loved them!

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Posted 10/20/2010 2:01:58 PM REPORT ABUSE Wilsonesque said:

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I made this for a family get together and they went over great! I was not able to find orange paste coloring, so I used an entire small tube of orange gel and it got the job done. I also put little frosting leaves on every pumpkin to give it more of a realistic look. Very, very easy to make and kids love them :)

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